BITCOIN ENDOWMENT FUND

Update! — We now accept
anoncoin at ALifeboatMFbsbBnM157zSwmvLefBMFyRA,
bitcoin
at 1LifeboatVPg24QghZ73Dzrx8AxcJLCnoA,
bitcoin cash
at 1LifeboatVPg24QghZ73Dzrx8AxcJLCnoA,
bytecoin at 27Ztk296eht7kvkuSWBnSHFkyJuBz12aUQD3JGAB9TzfTmij
vGVsB4626pMkC7ZPHvM8oNBxPSW6NGjtvvY4hdTSEzxz3NQ,
CryptogenicBullion at
5oLifeboahKRRBegBet6wKknJXKgZaC2n1,
Dash at
XoLifeboayhU2V4cZjzEWrVY1bs4EXRzVj,
Ethereum at
0xbadc0de027c5c1aa8917db7c93aec6c4281f6eca,
litecoin at
LLifeboat89KCQKb9XEH2XGAQqbr2KnUp9,
monero at
42BToafqtFZDrGPVzWrTCoG2fd2joMvK4BGV3tiQFnE1HhyQ
5Ug1QzRNLL5xFHyNHc6rLZbZ8GpqV1V41FzNsaxtPbg2LJd,
noblecoin
at 9oLifeboaAJZD99ewSfEadFQuYRxEwrRFu,
NXT at 15218141642686933204,
peercoin at
PLifeboatRZmTjrLMs6Cpa14Sqc8Nwyq6p,
solarcoin at
8LifeboatJu4KqsL5NCtmd45dkD2aFK59X, and
Zcash at
t1Lifeboat7EQg4jzdUdgDjPkbPqnkWy3LP,

Update — Trace Mayer, an
early bitcoin proponent and Lifeboat Foundation Economics board member,
says “The Lifeboat Foundation is a good organization bringing
together some of the brightest minds from many disciplines to act as
guardians of the human race. But what good is collaboration without an
ability, particularly a financial ability, to implement solutions? With
this bitcoin endowment fund any donations made today enable the Lifeboat
Foundation to be the beneficiary of the massive wealth transfer
benefiting holders of bitcoins and practically that means an increased
financial ability stored in a censorship-resistant currency to implement
solutions to vexing existential threats to
humanity.”

Lifeboat Foundation has launched the world’s first bitcoin
endowment fund! Become a Lifeboat VIP and donate to bitcoin address
1LifeboatVPg24QghZ73Dzrx8AxcJLCnoA

The Lifeboat Foundation is interested in funding cryptography-related
projects since a 1984-like world would not only be unpleasant but could
give the government the power to do terrible things that could even
become existential threats.

While the Lifeboat Foundation was founded in the 21st century, until
recently it was mainly funded using 20th century money, basically
various
types of monies backed by governments. Thanks to the encouragement of
some of our larger donors we are now working to have the majority of our
funding come from 21st century money — money backed not by
governments but by algorithms. The 21st century money Lifeboat is
currently focused on is bitcoins.

Historically government backed money has done a poor job in holding its
value. For example, the successful U.S. dollar has lost over
97% of its value since it was first issued.
A less successful currency, the Japanese yen, has
lost 99.95% of its value since
being issued.
Many promote the idea of
trading rocks (gold and silver) instead but this
Bronze Age idea has
various drawbacks including portability when local governments decide
to confiscate it. As a futuristic organization, we should be promoting
21st century money and now we are!

Crypto-currencies have many advantages over old-fashioned
government-backed money. For example they enable transparency,
enabling Lifeboat
to show that our endowment monies are stored in these wallets:
They also allow people in less developed countries to have access to
the rest of the world.
For example, PayPal alone blocks access to over 60 countries, and many
credit card
companies have similar restrictions. Some are blocked for political
reasons, some because of higher fraud rates, and some for other
financial reasons. Whatever the reason, we don’t think a human
being from Haiti, Ethiopia, or Kenya should have diminished access to
the world because of payment issues they can’t control.
Our goal is to enable people, not block them.

The March 2013 EU–IMF
grab of about 50% of large bank accounts in
Cyprus that held government-backed
money was the key event that caused the Lifeboat Foundation to feel that
the time for 21st century money was here. (We launched
our endowment fund shortly after the Cyprus crisis began.)
Such confiscations continue
with the
confiscation of all bonds held by Polish private pensions.

Any bitcoins donated anywhere on the Lifeboat
site will be added to our bitcoin endowment fund. Any non-bitcoin
donations made on this page will be used to buy
bitcoin-related hardware such as
bitcoin address generating equipment
or will be used to buy
bitcoins.
Learn what we have spent non-bitcoin donations on so far!

We would like to start a trend of
nonprofits building endowment funds with bitcoins instead of just
spending them all. Nonprofits could be using the deflationary power of
bitcoins to build up their resources so they are in a better position to
make
a difference in the world. Help us launch this trend!

To give back to the bitcoin community we
have created the first Windows version of
oclvanitygen in the world
that runs well on
high-end AMD cards.
(Our version runs nearly four times as fast as the old version!)
We also added support for compressed keys as
well. You can
download the program for free and can learn more about what we did
on
GitHub. This is a program for generating vanity bitcoin addresses
such as our address that begins with 1Lifeboat. PGP signature for program is
here.

In addition to all these donation methods, the Lifeboat Foundation is
interested in the donation of desktops with PCI-E slots and of laptops
without PCI-E slots as well. Let
us know if you have such hardware to donate!

Lifeboat Foundation respects your privacy! We will not use your
optional phone number to contact you for any reason other than to
correct a problem relating to your membership processing.

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Every donor can provide a short testimonial with their donation which
will show up on our donors page. If you haven’t already created a
testimonial please consider the ability of your words to help others
reach the same conclusion you did. If we all work together, the day when
humanity adopts the increasingly powerful technologies of genetics,
nanotechnology, and robotics/AI safely will arrive that much sooner.

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Suggestions on how to spend our Bitcoin Endowment Fund:

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Bitcoin Endowment Fund

We now have
0.0014128 bitcoin cashes valued at
$416.927714536
each stored in these wallets:
496.24499383 bitcoins (including pledges) valued at
$5,523.4413
(bitcoin price provided by CoinDesk)
each stored in these wallets:
2.144172 CryptogenicBullion valued at
$1.27331 each stored in this wallet:
1;
190.14792476999979 etherium valued at
$176.37269549 each stored in this wallet:
1,
13.15159265 litecoins valued at
$42.6908630152 each stored in this wallet:
1;
100.1 moneros valued at
$87.7310893569 each;
265,999.80 noblecoins valued at
$0.000182885 each stored in these wallets:
1 and
2;
30.825038 peercoins valued at
$2.16766522958 each stored in this wallet:
1;
1,150 solarcoins valued at
$0.180599 each stored in this wallet:
1, and
721.03142548 Zcash valued at
$107.935416283 each stored in these wallets:
1,
2,
3,
and
4.

Lifeboat Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
organization, federal
EIN #80-0034805. All membership fees and other gifts are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

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